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News: Performance / Tour

James P. Johnson's Last Rent Party! October 4th, 2009 @ Smalls Jazz Club

James P. Johnson's Last Rent Party! October 4th, 2009 @ Smalls Jazz Club

October 4th, 2009 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM @ Smalls Jazz Club 183 West 10th Street @ 7th Ave South New York City, 10014 smallsjazzclub.com James P. Johnson, the father of stride piano, the composer of The Charleston and The Carolina Shout, and one ...

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News: Festival

1st Annual Underground Big Apple Jazz Festival 2009

Coming June 26 to July 4th, 2009 to a Hidden Jazz Haunt from the Village to Harlem A week-long celebration will rope together for the first time the best Underground Jazz scene in NYC's hidden neighborhood spots that feature Live Jazz>; Each will put their Fest foot forward with exciting performances for 1st Annual Underground Big ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Posi-Tone Records

Read "Posi-Tone Records" reviewed by Donald Elfman


Posi-Tone Records is an extraordinary anomaly in these times, an independent, thriving jazz label that continues to find new and established musicians and works continually to improve each aspect of production to release a final product of superior quality. As the market has changed the company has sought and accepted new ways to do business that ...

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Article: Album Review

Spike Wilner: 3 To Go

Read "3 To Go" reviewed by George Kanzler


At a small jazz festival a few years ago the advertised theme was a celebration of Duke Ellington's music. But some featured acts, including one highly regarded younger pianist, obviously hadn't taken the theme very seriously, his only begrudging nod to it being a rendition of the jam session standby, “C-Jam Blues," hardly a tune representative ...

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Late Night: Live At Smalls

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: How Am I To Know?, Hopscotch, A Gypsy Without A Song, Brown Penny, The Intimacy Of The Blues, If You Are But A Dream, A Blues Of Many Colors, Go Ask Ellis, A Blues For Another Day.

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Article: Album Review

Spike Wilner: Late Night: Live At Smalls

Read "Late Night: Live At Smalls" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Michael “Spike" Wilner was a fixture at the late, lamented New York City club Smalls, which was a very hip little place that featured great music by young, rising musicians at reasonable prices. This CD, consisting of live performances by Wilner's quintet and trio, functions as a fitting memorial to that place. The resulting sounds are ...

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A Blues of Many Colors

Label: Blue Moon
Released: 2002
Track listing: Upsaka, Prelude, A Blues of Many Colors, The East Village Inamorata, The Silver Card, Wyrick's Fable, Foolish Lament, A Stitch in Time, Spike Strikes

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Article: Album Review

Spike Wilner Ensemble: A Blues of Many Colors

Read "A Blues of Many Colors" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Pianist/composer Spike Wilner got the group together for a month of gigs at Smalls, the jazz club in in New York's Greenwich village, to polish up their chops for the recording session that resulted in A Blues of Many Colors. Time well spent: they put a nice shine on nine of Wilner's compositions.The ensemble ...


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